Perception Quotes - Page 5

Our perceptions shape whether challenges are obstacles that block our path to success or important arrows that steer us in the direction we want to go.

Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?

All forms are limited. Some of the limitations are time, place, culture, language.

Eventlessness has no post to drape duration on.

Visual impressions are greatly intensified and the eye recovers some of the perceptual innocence of childhood, when the sensum was not immediately and automatically subordinated to the concept. Interest in space is diminished and interest in time falls almost to zero.

The world we see is a painting colored by our fears and desires.

Anybody that fears and detests witchcraft is not happy with science and technology.

Worry is a weighty monster with poisoned tentacles. It clutches at us, grabs at our minds, steals our breath, our will. It lurks. It pounces. It colors how we perceive the world.

Love is the perception of perfection beyond the protection of our projection.

To see through the illusion of duality, remember that fear and darkness have no substance in themselves, for they do not indicate the presence of a second universal force, but are only names given to the one Light unperceived.

The way to embody love completely is to see and appreciate life just as it is, and not as you believe, fear, or desire it to be.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free

there can be no failure to a human who has not lost his courage, unlike a drop of water which loses its identity when it joins the ocean, human does not lose his being in the society in which he lives

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

Andrei, did you like the opera?"
"Not particularly."
"Andrei, do you see what you're missing?"
"I don't think I do, Kira. It's all rather silly. And useless."
"Can't you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?"
"No. But I enjoyed it."
"The music?"
"No. The way you listened to it.

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

We can't expect a blind man to appreciate beautiful patterns or a deaf man to listen to bells and drums. And blindness and deafness are not confined to the body alone - the understanding has them, too.

My father says that there is only one perfect view - the view of the sky straight over our heads, and that all these views on earth are but bungled copies of it.